Ranko Žeravica, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ranko Žeravica

Serbian basketball coach

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1929

Place of Birth: Novo Miloševo, Vojvodina, Serbia

Date of Death: 29-Oct-2015

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Ranko Žeravica (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ????????; 17 November 1929 – 29 October 2015) was a Serbian professional basketball coach.
With a career that spanned over 50 years, he is most noted for his work with the senior Yugoslav national team, during the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s.
In particular, Žeravica's single biggest achievement was guiding the country to its first ever major competition win — a gold medal on home soil, at the 1970 FIBA World Championship — leading to a huge expansion of the game of basketball throughout Yugoslavia.
In 2007, he was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame.
Ranko Žeravica Sports Hall was named after him in his honor, in 2016.